HKSAR v. ANTI AMPOFO MOSEN

HCCC81/2009

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CRIMINAL CASE NO. 81 OF 2009

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Transcript of the Audio Recording

of the Sentence in the above Case

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COURT: Defendant, you have been convicted by the jury of these two counts of trafficking in dangerous drugs. You were stopped and searched on 4 October last year at Baker Street, Hung Hom, in Kowloon, when the drugs being the subject matter of Count 1 were found hidden beneath two pairs of underpants that you were wearing.

You were then taken back to your premises where a much larger stash of cocaine, forming the subject matter of Count 2, was discovered, together with typical drug-trafficking paraphernalia in the form of electronic scales and numerous plastic packets suitable for transferring into smaller amount of cocaine, suitable for sale on the street.

In the course of this trial, you have seen fit to make the most outrageous allegations against the police, accusing them of theft of valuables from your flat and theft of approximately $17,000 in cash. You saw fit to make these allegations despite the complete absence of any evidence of such behaviour on the part of the police.

I find there to be no mitigating factors that can operate to reduce the normal starting point for trafficking in the quantities of cocaine that you were found to possess.

On Count 1, you will be sentenced to a term of 6½ years’ imprisonment.

On Count 2, I sentence you to a term of 10 years’ imprisonment but, due to the question of totality of sentence, I order 1 year of the sentence on Count 1 to run consecutively to the sentence on Count 2, arriving at a total sentence of 11 years’ imprisonment in all.